Editorial Myth of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody
Aboriginal deaths in custody has been a substantial political issue for over thirty years. Press have campaigned for ALP on the issue, raising the issue of deaths in custody under conservative administrations, while giving free passes to ALP over the issue. Kevin Rudd was lauded for 'saying sorry' and for ending the intervention. Kevin Rudd was given a free pass over the Heiner Affair. But with all the mud being thrown, the basic truth that Aboriginal peoples are less likely to die behind bars than anyone else exposes the lie.
Deaths in custody are not common anyway. They shouldn't be. The lie about Aboriginal deaths in custody being the result of Australian racism has claimed lives, like those of TJ Hickie who ran from police who weren't pursuing him and died as a result of an accident. I covered that in my Picking Cotton series.
How many have escaped justice because of the myth of Aboriginal Deaths in Custody? What has been the cost in addressing the non issue? How can we address the naked racism involved in promoting the myth? Should we expect the media who were wrong to apologise for it? Will they say 'sorry?'
Editorial Tuesday 13th April Media confused by math?
The headline "Maths professor stumped by seven year old's difficult homework" is believable and sad.
The activity that stumped the professor was a concrete block exercise. The task was to divide a reservoir of blocks depicting hundreds, tens and units into quantities matching a minimum
“a) Can she make two equal three-digit numbers? If so, draw the counters to show them.
“b) Can she make two equal three-digit numbers if she had to use all her counters? If so, draw the counters to show them.”
Because the counters are physical, they are different to abstract numbers. The number 486 can be divided equally, but the physical blocks cannot. Two physical expressions of 188 is possible. But what of 243? The constitution of 243 would be different (2x100, 4X10, 3X1 vs 1x100, 13X10, 13X1) but the number achievable. More impressive is the children (parents?) having to draw the blocks.
Editorial Monday 12th April Bad dad myth takes lives
There are terrible, murderous fathers who seemingly act with impunity. There are also upstanding, decent fathers whose acts of love are denigrated and despised by popular press and activists. The result is preventable tragedy.
John Edwards had been a bad dad. He killed two of his children before killing himself in 2018, but he was a bad dad before that. He had had a 24 year history of domestic violence over seven partners and ten children. He only had had one apprehended violence order against his name, but a number of times came close to more. On one occasion, in 2016, the mother of two children who would be killed by Edwards went to police after a violent episode. It had followed Edwards receiving weekend custody and the inexperienced officer taking the complaint wrote that the complaint might have been an ambit claim against the custody. A lot of focus is on how Edwards obtained a gun legally. Not much has been focused on how Edwards tracked his estranged children illegally before killing them. It is apparent he tracked his daughter from her school.
But what about good men who raise their children right? What about men impugned for being .. male? Men denied sexual gratification because of political correctness, so that a sexual consent app is discussed in NSW parliament, and yet even such as that is declared not fool proof. Not all males tell off colour jokes, but is telling off colour jokes related to rape? Can a child be disciplined by a male parent? What if the parent is Boris Johnstone or Donald Trump? Can a single, conservative male have paid sex? Would it be different if they owned a social media company?
Was it the case Edwards got a free pass because, at other times, good men have been harangued?
The issue is particularly sensitive to me because I was badly raised by my father, who beat me until I begged my mother to remove his custody from me, and then he beat me some more. I told a teacher about him while I was in kindergarten and so he moved me to another school. On occasions when we were alone together I feared for my life. His second family had him named Father of the Year in NSW. In one of our last conversations, he asked "David, you do know how difficult it was to raise you?"
My father was not Edwards. I do not know Edwards, or what drove him. But I do understand parts of my father's problems with raising me. My mother was awful, and had wilfully removed cultural assets which promote family. None of her four children had children. Simply too damaged.
Cultural assets are under siege wherever totalitarian leftists rule, but they are also under siege where totalitarian leftist supporting media and complicit useful idiots work to overthrow good government.
How good was the parenting of Joe Biden? Hunter Biden?
===Explosive new video emerges that lays out in detail the media’s plan to take down Trump, and advance environmental propaganda. In this episode, I discuss the video and the evidence that we’re all being lied to.
News Picks:
- A recap of the fireworks with Geraldo last night.
- Radical democrats move to pack the Supreme Courts.
- Senate Republicans call for a national commission to balance the budget.
- Coca Cola is panicking because conservatives are turning their backs on their products.
- Hypocritical corporate critics of the Georgia voting law are incorporated in Delaware, which has stricter voting laws.
- CNN employee caught on tape again, giving up the CNN COVID game plan.
=== Bongino Headlines ===
Twitter Suspends James O’Keefe Amid Series of Exposés on CNN – O’Keefe Announces He’s Suing TwitterJim Jordan Slams Fauci: “When Is It Going to End?”
Crazy Nancy Sanely Decides Not to Back Dems’ SCOTUS Packing Bill – Won’t Bring it to Vote
U.S. Intel Walks Back Claim Russia Paid Taliban Bounties on U.S. Troops
Trump Plans Endorsement in Primary Against Liz Cheney
Derek Chauvin Invokes 5th Amendment – Defense Rests – Closing Arguments to Be Heard Monday
Capitol Hill
Mike Pence Recovering After Having Pacemaker Implanted
Biden/Fauci Digital Director Has History of Racist Tweets, Called for “Banning White People”
Senate GOP to Push for Creation of National Commission to Balance Budget
18 GOP Senators Ask FBI to Investigate Biden’s Pentagon Policy Nominee
House GOP Introduces Bill to Defund UN Population Fund, Arguing It Supports China’s Population Controls
Psaki Denies Biden’s Tax Package Will Increase Utility Prices – Which it Will
Rep: Scalise: White House Hasn’t Reached Out to GOP on “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill
Report: Mitch McConnell Wants A Truce With Donald Trump
New Images Emerge Showing Expansion of Texas Migrant Facility as Border Crisis Worsens
Secr of State Blinken Makes Unannounced Visit to Afghanistan to Sell Troop Withdrawal
House Judiciary Committee Advances Legislation on Slavery Reparations
Culture War
Dems Make Case for Expanding SCOTUS in Trainwreck Press Conference
Psaki Says Biden Has His “Own View” On Court Packing – But Won’t Say What It Is
Project Veritas Captures CNN Director Admitting Network Tailors Reporting to Support BLM Movement
Hundreds of Big Corporations Sign Letter Opposing Election Integrity Laws
Parents Protest Outside Chicago Teachers Union HQ As Classrooms Remain Closed
Wealthy BLM Co-Founder Calls Capitalism “More Tragic Than Covid”
Florida House Passes Bill Banning Biological Men From Women’s Sports
NY Times Reported That Absentee Voting Boosted Fraud Until Trump Agreed
Washington Post Columnist Upset the Public Doesn’t Share the Same Values as Journos
CNN Crew Chased Away From Brooklyn Center By Angry Protesters
James O’Keefe Appears on Hannity to Break Down Latest “Expose CNN” Video
Economy
Stocks Hit All Time Highs – Dow Tops 34k for First Time Ever
Fed’s Powell Says Cyber Threats a Bigger Danger to U.S. Economy Than 2008-Style Crisis
IRS Commissioner Says They’re Probing the Dark Web for Evidence of Cryptocurrency Tax Evasion
March One of the Worst Months Ever for the Federal Deficit
Trump’s Sanctions Pushed Iran to Brink of Bankruptcy
Lumber Prices Skyrocket Amid Shortages
Economist Nouriel Roubini Warns of Stagflation
15% of Americans Say They’re Worse Off One-Year Into Pandemic
Conversion of Commercial Real Estate Into Housing Accelerated by Pandemic
The Best Cities in America for Taxes
Swamp Watch
Guatemala’s Government Denies White House Claim They Signed Deal With U.S. to Increase Border Security
Rand Paul Says Courts Didn’t Fully Hear Trump’s Election-Fraud Challenges
Judge in Derek Chauvin Trial Denies Motion to Acquit
Hundreds Protest Daunte Wright Shooting in Numerous Cities
Left Claims Tucker is Racist for Quoting Their Own Claims That Demographics Will Doom Republicans
Biden Administration Places Iran and Palestinians on Par With Israel
Israel Did Not Give Biden Admin Advance Notice of Attack on Iranian Nuclear Facility
Even Mexico Acknowledges the Border Crisis
ACLU Sues Woman Seeking Info on Number of Transgender Inmates in Women’s Prisons
=== Newsmax Headlines ===
Biden Presidency
Rep. Waltz: Pulling Troops From Afghanistan on 9-11 Is 'Insult'
Chris Christie: GOP Must Call Out Biden as a 'Liar'
House Speaker Pelosi Opposes Supreme Court Expansion
McCarthy: Dems' Call to Add Justices Should 'Scare' All Americans
Mercedes Schlapp: 'Far Left in Charge' of 'Weak' Biden
US Expels Russian Diplomats, Imposes New Round of Sanctions
Rubio: Biden Order on Russia 'Legality' to Allow Action on SolarWinds
Quinnipiac Poll: 48% Approve of Biden's Job Performance
S.C. Gov. McMaster Vows Fight Against Accepting Migrant Children
Newsfront
US Braces for One-Year COVID-19 Booster Shots; Pfizer Chief Sees Need
The United States is preparing for the possibility that a booster [Full Story]
Related
Merck Plans Outpatient Trial of COVID-19 Pill
Denmark Is First in EU to Drop AstraZeneca Vaccine
Moderna Says Its Booster Shot Could Be Available by Fall
US Advisory Panel Wants More Data Before Ending Pause on J&J Vaccine
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Edwin Brock (19 October 1927 -- 7 September 1997) was a British poet. Brock wrote two of the best-known poems of the last century, Five Ways to Kill a Man and Song of the Battery Hen.
https://rumble.com/vbigwn-five-ways-to-kill-a-man.html
In Victoria, Dan Andrews would like to give $225 million to a sporting body, AFL, to build a hotel at Etihad stadium. Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has said his government would not spend that money on it. Andrews has not explained why that money needs to be spent. Could I have money to publish my books in Victoria? No, Dan Andrews would never countenance it. So what is different at Etihad?
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Paul was writing to Rome from Corinth. He had Tertius of Iconium write this while he dictated. Paul had established a number of churches around the Greek seas in the decade leading up to the letter. Rome was the then undisputed capital of the 'known world.'
Here, Paul reminds us of why we get very upset when taxes are misappropriated by the greedy to further oppression. If they are not God's servant's, they serve another master. But if one owes it, one should pay it.
Wikipedia has a contributor who anonymously tries to lampoon Trumps attorney General Sessions, and spokesperson Sanders.
"Romans 13 was used during the period of the American Revolution, by loyalists who preached obedience to the Crown; and by revolutionaries who argued for elimination of the unjust authority of the King. Later in US history, Romans 13 was employed by anti-abolitionists to justify and legitimise the keeping of slaves; notably around the time of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which precipitated debate as to whether the law should be obeyed or resisted. It was also used by the Dutch Reformed Church to justify apartheid rule in South Africa.
In June 2018, Romans 13 was used by Jeff Sessions to justify the Trump administration family separation policy, saying:I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, echoed Sessions' use of Romans 13, stating:I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comments or what he would be referencing, [but] I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated throughout the Bible.
Commenting on the fight to define Romans 13, Lincoln Mullen argues that "what the attorney general actually has on his side is the thread of American history that justifies oppression and domination in the name of law and order.""\
US Braces for One-Year COVID-19 Booster Shots; Pfizer Chief Sees Need
The United States is preparing for the possibility that a booster [Full Story]
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Merck Plans Outpatient Trial of COVID-19 Pill
Denmark Is First in EU to Drop AstraZeneca Vaccine
Moderna Says Its Booster Shot Could Be Available by Fall
US Advisory Panel Wants More Data Before Ending Pause on J&J Vaccine
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Here is a video I made Five Ways to Kill a Man
Edwin Brock (19 October 1927 -- 7 September 1997) was a British poet. Brock wrote two of the best-known poems of the last century, Five Ways to Kill a Man and Song of the Battery Hen.
https://rumble.com/vbigwn-five-ways-to-kill-a-man.html
=== From 2018 ===
Don't give up on hope. Trump's proportionate response against Syria has not produced a Russian reflexive response. Even Al Jazeera is moderating it's voice on the issue. France's Macron has ham-fistedly claimed he has talked Trump into changing policy on Syria while agreeing with Trump. ABC program QandA has aired a picture of a dead child (2015, Aylan Kurdi) to justify her 'stance' that it is a good idea to drown illegal immigrants to be compassionate. The child, Aylan Kurdi, had been staged by it's father after drowning trying to come to Greece by boat in bad seas. Another whose family died on the same craft, asked Tony Abbott to come to Australia to flee ISIS. It is alleged that Aylan's father was captain of the boat and had caused the capsize by travelling too quickly. Apparently drowning was too terrible for that child. Progressives would rather the child be gassed to death. Meanwhile a statement from a Whitehouse spokesperson Sarah Huckabee-Sanders that accompanied a picture has been questioned after it was realised that the picture was not taken at the same time as the statement referred. Trump made a good decision on a proportioned response to Syria's use of chemical weapons and stockpiling of such weapons. Meanwhile hysterical swamp creatures denounce the response by saying a powerful picture was not taken on the day of the response. If progressives did not make bad choices they would make no decision at all. In Victoria, Dan Andrews would like to give $225 million to a sporting body, AFL, to build a hotel at Etihad stadium. Opposition Leader Matthew Guy has said his government would not spend that money on it. Andrews has not explained why that money needs to be spent. Could I have money to publish my books in Victoria? No, Dan Andrews would never countenance it. So what is different at Etihad?
=== from 2017 ===
Some things should not happen, but they do. Sometime ago, Australians stopped calling their wives 'my wife' and instead called them 'the wife.' When did that begin? Why? I've an interest in etymology and my initial searches have come up blank. It is in widespread use among Australians. It was part of the TV show Kingswood Country. I don't think it originated in Australia, although I get why Australian Larrikins have adopted it. It is playful as Larrikins would have it. An earlier reference to it is from James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small. In that autobiographical work, James recounts how he spoke with a farmer whose wife had died, and who had clearly loved his wife, but who only said of her "She was a good worker" and this unsentimentally shocked James. A good reason for why the phrase came into existence is because it did not refer to ones own wife, but the wife of a manor or house, who ran it. It probably came into usage during the eighteenth century during the industrial revolution. It sounds like an underclass worker referring to someone with respect, but not knowing the correct title. Marriage as an institution is very recent, as applied to common folk. The bible does not codify it. The extravaganza party of today's weddings are very different to the kind of party practiced in the days of Jane Austen or even federation in Australia. The idea of a ring is modern too, dating back to promotional campaigns for diamonds in some instances. But if you aren't certain, ask the wife.
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John Ball has published a book "Machine Intelligence: The Death of Artificial Intelligence." Ball is a cognitive intelligence researcher who has spent decades on the problem of getting machines to think. Ball has successfully been able to get machines to read like a person does. Only, Ball's machines can process language at a speed no individual could hope to. Imagine were a machine to be able to reply to a person's query with intonation and inflexion that people use? Imagine a search engine that semantically searched instead of employing search through pattern matching character strings. Imagine translating any language into another with perfect grammar. Ball's machines can do that. But one impediment is the fear of pop culture fanatics who believe that intelligent machines are a greater threat than ISIL. Then, imagine ISIL developing a Ball machine for their own use? Ball machines demonstrably work. The question is who will develop them and apply them? Ball presents facts which skewer pop culture fear mongering. The idea that a human would behave differently to a machine with a similar functioning brain is absurd. People are capable of evil or goodness and stupidity and ignorance, or precise, intelligent and timely analysis. Ball points the way forward and shows a future that is breathtakingly beautiful to behold.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
=== from 2015 ===
A young man who was a male model has gone to fight for ISIL and died. We don't know how he died. Probably an escalated dispute as to who got to have sex with him. A religious leader has given special dispensation allowing jihadists to engage in homosexual activity. There is no record that Iran will respect that ruling. People who claimed to know the model have said "He wasn't like that. He never expressed an interest in jihadism." A bit like a pilot learning to fly, but not land, who can see how the mind works of one who gives up religion to kill in the name of God.
In Victoria the Premier, Dan Andrews, has failed to keep an election promise. He had promised to prevent a needed infrastructure development that was paid for at no cost. But he is compensating the business, as he has to by law. He wants to keep the money the federal government allocated to the project. Victoria has no right to it. Mr Abbott has locked it away for the time when Victoria builds the road it needs. As for people who support Andrews, a salient warning: Those that stand for nothing, fall for anything.
On this day in 1457 BC, history changed. A young Egyptian leader overthrew his northern shackles and led his forces to siege a city called Megido. The siege was long and terrible, with those in the city running out of food and resorting to cannibalism. Then the city lost. Pharaoh Thutmose III had the victory recorded in detail, and so the battle is the first, well recorded siege in history. The awful condition of the besieged was inspirational for the biblical writer and disciple John. The city of Megido was, under Egyptian designation of calling a city with a prefix 'Ar,' Ar-Megido or, as john called it, Armageddon. In 73, having held out for years against Romans, so that the ramparts still exist leading up to it, Masada fell. And the Romans were denied victory even as they took the fortress. It heralded the end of the ancient state of Israel, but is a signpost for the resilience and greatness of the modern state.
Joanna was Queen of Castille and Leon, but called 'The Mad' by many. Her late husband had started the rumour after marrying her when she was 26, but being manipulative and unfaithful. He died within a year. A succession of deaths resulted in her being given the throne her father desired. He ran it as she raised her child. Her dad was first regent for her, then her son. But her father died in 1516 and she was co ruler with her son. But a popular uprising began on this day in 1520 in favour of her, as her son had left Spain to be crowned as Holy Roman Emperor. Her son put down the uprising and had his 'mad' mother confined to a nunnery. He wrote to the establishment that none should speak to her as it would serve little purpose. There is much debate in modern times as to the nature of her illness. In 1521, her son, Charles V, got the Diet of Worms to investigate Martin Luther personally. It was at this meeting, on this day, that Martin Luther defended his work in terms of the scripture. It is interesting that his prosecution claimed that the scripture had been fallible and so his defence was weak. Luther left the conference and was kidnapped by a friend and placed under protection. The schism between Christian faiths was widening.
In 1746, Scottish Highlands changed forever after the Battle of Culloden was fought between Jacobites supported by France and British Hanoverian forces. Jacobites lost and certain Highland cultural practices were banned, while the highlands were cleared of inhabitants. In 1847, a sailor accidentally shot a NZ Maori, opening the Wanganui campaign. In 1853, the first passenger rail opened in India. In 1917, Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland where he had enjoyed exile. In 1919, Ghandi excused riots by a call to prayer and fasting. In 1925, Bulgarian communists blew up St Nedelya Church at a funeral for a general they had assassinated three days earlier. They succeeded in killing 150, and 500 were wounded. In 1941, the Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller pitched the only opening day no hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating Chi White Sox 1-0. In 1945, Soviet forces surrounded Berlin in a million man assault in the Battle of Seelow Heights. On the same day, US army liberated Colditz. Also on this day in 1945, a Soviet sub sank a German refugee vessel with 7000 killed. In 1947, Journalist Bernard Baruch coined the term the 'Cold War.'
In 1961, in a speech copied by Rudd some 46 years later, Cuba's Castro announced he was really a marxist leninist. Fidel had claimed before hand he was fighting for simple freedoms in Cuba, suggesting free trade and an end to tyranny. After his speech, Cuba became a terrorist state with a tyrannical leader, although it had been that anyway. Rudd had claimed before election in '07 that he was an economic conservative. But after his election he changed his mind and penned an essay which showed the liberal socialist government he led would spend Australia into poverty, turning around a surplus economy to one exceeding half a trillion dollars in deficit and no spending surplus in site for decades. In 1963, Martin King penned a letter from Birmingham Jail where he was incarcerated for asking for an end to segregation. In 1990, Jack Kevorkian killed his first patient with an assisted suicide. In 1995, Texas Governor George W Bush announced Selena Day for the singer killed two weeks earlier.
One should never justify the insane left wing rhetoric coming from universities which is not challenged by criticism at those institutions. The tragic results are murderous. As was the case when a mentally ill former South Korean National student aged 23 purchased an arsenal of weapons and attacked his Virginia Tech school, killing 32 and injuring 17 before suiciding. He even had access to hollow point bullets. He wrote several notes explaining his actions, blaming rich kids and debauchery. But it was only his own selfish choice, actualised by a university which failed to realise his mutterings weren't sane. Many had raised questions to the school authorities, who took no consequential action. In 2012, the trial of Anders Breivik began. Breivik had wanted to be a Knight just like the EDL idiots. He killed 77, mainly older children.
In Victoria the Premier, Dan Andrews, has failed to keep an election promise. He had promised to prevent a needed infrastructure development that was paid for at no cost. But he is compensating the business, as he has to by law. He wants to keep the money the federal government allocated to the project. Victoria has no right to it. Mr Abbott has locked it away for the time when Victoria builds the road it needs. As for people who support Andrews, a salient warning: Those that stand for nothing, fall for anything.
On this day in 1457 BC, history changed. A young Egyptian leader overthrew his northern shackles and led his forces to siege a city called Megido. The siege was long and terrible, with those in the city running out of food and resorting to cannibalism. Then the city lost. Pharaoh Thutmose III had the victory recorded in detail, and so the battle is the first, well recorded siege in history. The awful condition of the besieged was inspirational for the biblical writer and disciple John. The city of Megido was, under Egyptian designation of calling a city with a prefix 'Ar,' Ar-Megido or, as john called it, Armageddon. In 73, having held out for years against Romans, so that the ramparts still exist leading up to it, Masada fell. And the Romans were denied victory even as they took the fortress. It heralded the end of the ancient state of Israel, but is a signpost for the resilience and greatness of the modern state.
Joanna was Queen of Castille and Leon, but called 'The Mad' by many. Her late husband had started the rumour after marrying her when she was 26, but being manipulative and unfaithful. He died within a year. A succession of deaths resulted in her being given the throne her father desired. He ran it as she raised her child. Her dad was first regent for her, then her son. But her father died in 1516 and she was co ruler with her son. But a popular uprising began on this day in 1520 in favour of her, as her son had left Spain to be crowned as Holy Roman Emperor. Her son put down the uprising and had his 'mad' mother confined to a nunnery. He wrote to the establishment that none should speak to her as it would serve little purpose. There is much debate in modern times as to the nature of her illness. In 1521, her son, Charles V, got the Diet of Worms to investigate Martin Luther personally. It was at this meeting, on this day, that Martin Luther defended his work in terms of the scripture. It is interesting that his prosecution claimed that the scripture had been fallible and so his defence was weak. Luther left the conference and was kidnapped by a friend and placed under protection. The schism between Christian faiths was widening.
In 1746, Scottish Highlands changed forever after the Battle of Culloden was fought between Jacobites supported by France and British Hanoverian forces. Jacobites lost and certain Highland cultural practices were banned, while the highlands were cleared of inhabitants. In 1847, a sailor accidentally shot a NZ Maori, opening the Wanganui campaign. In 1853, the first passenger rail opened in India. In 1917, Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland where he had enjoyed exile. In 1919, Ghandi excused riots by a call to prayer and fasting. In 1925, Bulgarian communists blew up St Nedelya Church at a funeral for a general they had assassinated three days earlier. They succeeded in killing 150, and 500 were wounded. In 1941, the Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller pitched the only opening day no hitter in Major League Baseball, defeating Chi White Sox 1-0. In 1945, Soviet forces surrounded Berlin in a million man assault in the Battle of Seelow Heights. On the same day, US army liberated Colditz. Also on this day in 1945, a Soviet sub sank a German refugee vessel with 7000 killed. In 1947, Journalist Bernard Baruch coined the term the 'Cold War.'
In 1961, in a speech copied by Rudd some 46 years later, Cuba's Castro announced he was really a marxist leninist. Fidel had claimed before hand he was fighting for simple freedoms in Cuba, suggesting free trade and an end to tyranny. After his speech, Cuba became a terrorist state with a tyrannical leader, although it had been that anyway. Rudd had claimed before election in '07 that he was an economic conservative. But after his election he changed his mind and penned an essay which showed the liberal socialist government he led would spend Australia into poverty, turning around a surplus economy to one exceeding half a trillion dollars in deficit and no spending surplus in site for decades. In 1963, Martin King penned a letter from Birmingham Jail where he was incarcerated for asking for an end to segregation. In 1990, Jack Kevorkian killed his first patient with an assisted suicide. In 1995, Texas Governor George W Bush announced Selena Day for the singer killed two weeks earlier.
One should never justify the insane left wing rhetoric coming from universities which is not challenged by criticism at those institutions. The tragic results are murderous. As was the case when a mentally ill former South Korean National student aged 23 purchased an arsenal of weapons and attacked his Virginia Tech school, killing 32 and injuring 17 before suiciding. He even had access to hollow point bullets. He wrote several notes explaining his actions, blaming rich kids and debauchery. But it was only his own selfish choice, actualised by a university which failed to realise his mutterings weren't sane. Many had raised questions to the school authorities, who took no consequential action. In 2012, the trial of Anders Breivik began. Breivik had wanted to be a Knight just like the EDL idiots. He killed 77, mainly older children.
From 2014
Badgery's Creek airport is another in a long list of stunning infrastructure partnerships that Liberal Federal Governments have done combined with a Liberal NSW State Government. It is almost as if when it is worthwhile, ALP should not be involved. Two major works projects which dragged on for decades were the Snowy Mountain scheme and the Opera House. Neither looked like ever finishing until Askin put the finishing touches on them. In contrast, NSW had an Olympics in 2000 under ALP which failed to make a profit and badly diverted major works from permanent infrastructure. It became a lost opportunity. So the five decade prevarication that is the second city airport for Sydney is announced, a stunning success for NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell the day he resigns. O'Farrell has not been premier for very long, but NSW has benefited. Maybe his term in office will be remembered for improvements in public transport. Or maybe for almost all areas of economic activity in NSW, or health and education. But it is unlikely, although true. Some may criticise O'Farrell for his stance on Gonski, or 18c, but that is hyper. The tasks a conservative government must complete have not been completed. He leaves too soon. Scandalously, media journalists are throwing around the word 'corruption' to describe the oversight which claimed the Premiership. O'Farrell was ambushed by a politically charged ICAC over the issue of a wine bottle. It was apparent O'Farrell had not declared it. He has claimed to have forgotten about it. O'Farrell was placed on the stand of the ICAC for a different reason, as a witness, before being ambushed. It was a procedural unfairness. His response was probably anticipated as being denial, which might have allowed the ICAC to derail an investigation into ALP corruption. That excuse is gone, now that O'Farrell has resigned. O'Farrell has behaved honourably. He has met a standard no NSW ALP Premier has met in living memory. I have had to amend my petition. I thank you, Mr O'Farrell and wish you well in your future endeavours.
Historical perspective on this day
In 1457 BC, likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanitecoalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail. 73, Masada, a Jewish fortress, fell to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt. 1346, Dušan the Mighty was proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
In 1520, the Revolt of the Comuneros began in Spain against the rule of Charles V. 1521, Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire. 1582, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta, Argentina. 1746, the Battle of Culloden was fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants. 1780, the University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded. 1799, Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drove Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
In 1818, the United States Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada. 1847, the accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor resulted in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars. 1853, the first passenger rail opened in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. 1858, the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was wound up. 1862, American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. Also 1862, American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, became law. 1863, American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1881, in Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle.
In 1908, Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah. 1910, the oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opened for the first time. 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplaneacross the English Channel. 1917, Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland. 1919, Mohandas Gandhi organises a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. Also 1919, Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensiveto capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. 1922, the Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, was signed. 1925, during the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 were killed and 500 were wounded.
In 1941, World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, was attacked and destroyed by British ships. Also 1941, World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-rightorganisation was put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Also 1941, Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians threw the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0. 1944, World War II: Allied forces started bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. 1945, World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. Also 1945, the United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). Also 1945, more than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya was sunk by a Soviet submarine. 1947, Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port caused the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. Also 1947, Bernard Baruch coined the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II launched the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. 1961, in a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. 1962, Walter Cronkite took over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America". 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. 1972, Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1990, the "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participated in his first assisted suicide. 1992, the Katina P ran aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the ocean. 1995, George W. Bush named April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killedtwo weeks earlier.
In 2001, India and Bangladesh began a five-day border conflict, but were unable to resolve the disputes about their border. 2003, the Treaty of Accession was signed in Athensadmitting ten new member states to the European Union. 2007, Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and injured 17 before committing suicide. 2012, the trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, began in Oslo, Norway. 2012, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977that no book won the Fiction Prize. 2013, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. 2014, the MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsized near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
In 1520, the Revolt of the Comuneros began in Spain against the rule of Charles V. 1521, Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire. 1582, Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta, Argentina. 1746, the Battle of Culloden was fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants. 1780, the University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany was founded. 1799, Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drove Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
In 1818, the United States Senate ratified the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada. 1847, the accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor resulted in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars. 1853, the first passenger rail opened in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. 1858, the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was wound up. 1862, American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia. Also 1862, American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, became law. 1863, American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. 1881, in Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fought his last gun battle.
In 1908, Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah. 1910, the oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opened for the first time. 1912, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplaneacross the English Channel. 1917, Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland. 1919, Mohandas Gandhi organises a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier. Also 1919, Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensiveto capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania. 1922, the Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, was signed. 1925, during the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 were killed and 500 were wounded.
In 1941, World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, was attacked and destroyed by British ships. Also 1941, World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-rightorganisation was put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion. Also 1941, Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians threw the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0. 1944, World War II: Allied forces started bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter. 1945, World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights. Also 1945, the United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz). Also 1945, more than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya was sunk by a Soviet submarine. 1947, Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port caused the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. Also 1947, Bernard Baruch coined the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1953, Queen Elizabeth II launched the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia. 1961, in a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he was a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba was going to adopt Communism. 1962, Walter Cronkite took over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America". 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. penned his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. 1972, Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1990, the "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participated in his first assisted suicide. 1992, the Katina P ran aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spilled into the ocean. 1995, George W. Bush named April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killedtwo weeks earlier.
In 2001, India and Bangladesh began a five-day border conflict, but were unable to resolve the disputes about their border. 2003, the Treaty of Accession was signed in Athensadmitting ten new member states to the European Union. 2007, Virginia Tech massacre: Seung-Hui Cho gunned down 32 people and injured 17 before committing suicide. 2012, the trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, began in Oslo, Norway. 2012, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977that no book won the Fiction Prize. 2013, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others. 2014, the MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsized near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
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Today's reading: 1 Samuel 27-29, Luke 13:1-22 (NIV)
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Today's Old Testament reading: 1 Samuel 27-29
David Among the Philistines
1 But David thought to himself, "One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand."
2 So David and the six hundred men with him left and went over to Achish son of Maok king of Gath. 3 David and his men settled in Gath with Achish. Each man had his family with him, and David had his two wives: Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail of Carmel, the widow of Nabal. 4When Saul was told that David had fled to Gath, he no longer searched for him....
Today's New Testament reading: Luke 13:1-22
Repent or Perish
1 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them-do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
6 Then he told this parable: "A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, 'For three years now I've been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven't found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?'
8 "'Sir,' the man replied, 'leave it alone for one more year, and I'll dig around it and fertilize it. 9 If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down....'"
=== Morning and Evening ===
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Morning
We here behold the Saviour in the depth of his sorrows. No other place so well shows the griefs of Christ as Calvary, and no other moment at Calvary is so full of agony as that in which his cry rends the air--"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" At this moment physical weakness was united with acute mental torture from the shame and ignominy through which he had to pass; and to make his grief culminate with emphasis, he suffered spiritual agony surpassing all expression, resulting from the departure of his Father's presence. This was the black midnight of his horror; then it was that he descended the abyss of suffering. No man can enter into the full meaning of these words. Some of us think at times that we could cry, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" There are seasons when the brightness of our Father's smile is eclipsed by clouds and darkness; but let us remember that God never does really forsake us. It is only a seeming forsaking with us, but in Christ's case it was a real forsaking. We grieve at a little withdrawal of our Father's love; but the real turning away of God's face from his Son, who shall calculate how deep the agony which it caused him?
In our case, our cry is often dictated by unbelief: in his case, it was the utterance of a dreadful fact, for God had really turned away from him for a season. O thou poor, distressed soul, who once lived in the sunshine of God's face, but art now in darkness, remember that he has not really forsaken thee. God in the clouds is as much our God as when he shines forth in all the lustre of his grace; but since even the thought that he has forsaken us gives us agony, what must the woe of the Saviour have been when he exclaimed, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?"
Evening
God's people need lifting up. They are very heavy by nature. They have no wings, or, if they have, they are like the dove of old which lay among the pots; and they need divine grace to make them mount on wings covered with silver, and with feathers of yellow gold. By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward. O Lord, "lift them up forever!" David himself said, "Unto thee, O God, do I lift up my soul," and he here feels the necessity that other men's souls should be lifted up as well as his own. When you ask this blessing for yourself, forget not to seek it for others also. There are three ways in which God's people require to be lifted up. They require to be elevated in character. Lift them up, O Lord; do not suffer thy people to be like the world's people! The world lieth in the wicked one; lift them out of it! The world's people are looking after silver and gold, seeking their own pleasures, and the gratification of their lusts; but, Lord, lift thy people up above all this; keep them from being "muck-rakers," as John Bunyan calls the man who was always scraping after gold! Set thou their hearts upon their risen Lord and the heavenly heritage! Moreover, believers need to be prospered in conflict. In the battle, if they seem to fall, O Lord, be pleased to give them the victory. If the foot of the foe be upon their necks for a moment, help them to grasp the sword of the Spirit, and eventually to win the battle. Lord, lift up thy children's spirits in the day of conflict; let them not sit in the dust, mourning forever. Suffer not the adversary to vex them sore, and make them fret; but if they have been, like Hannah, persecuted, let them sing of the mercy of a delivering God.
We may also ask our Lord to lift them up at the last! Lift them up by taking them home, lift their bodies from the tomb, and raise their souls to thine eternal kingdom in glory.
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Paul was writing to Rome from Corinth. He had Tertius of Iconium write this while he dictated. Paul had established a number of churches around the Greek seas in the decade leading up to the letter. Rome was the then undisputed capital of the 'known world.'
Here, Paul reminds us of why we get very upset when taxes are misappropriated by the greedy to further oppression. If they are not God's servant's, they serve another master. But if one owes it, one should pay it.
Wikipedia has a contributor who anonymously tries to lampoon Trumps attorney General Sessions, and spokesperson Sanders.
"Romans 13 was used during the period of the American Revolution, by loyalists who preached obedience to the Crown; and by revolutionaries who argued for elimination of the unjust authority of the King. Later in US history, Romans 13 was employed by anti-abolitionists to justify and legitimise the keeping of slaves; notably around the time of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 which precipitated debate as to whether the law should be obeyed or resisted. It was also used by the Dutch Reformed Church to justify apartheid rule in South Africa.
In June 2018, Romans 13 was used by Jeff Sessions to justify the Trump administration family separation policy, saying:I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order. Orderly and lawful processes are good in themselves and protect the weak and lawful.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, echoed Sessions' use of Romans 13, stating:I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comments or what he would be referencing, [but] I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated throughout the Bible.
Commenting on the fight to define Romans 13, Lincoln Mullen argues that "what the attorney general actually has on his side is the thread of American history that justifies oppression and domination in the name of law and order.""\
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I am a decent man and don't care for the abuse given me. I created a video raising awareness of anti police feeling among western communities. I chose the senseless killing of Nicola Cotton, a Louisiana policewoman who joined post Katrina, to highlight the issue. I did this in order to get an income after having been illegally blacklisted from work in NSW for being a whistleblower. I have not done anything wrong. Local council appointees refused to endorse my work, so I did it for free. Youtube's Adsence refused to allow me to profit from their marketing it. Meanwhile, I am hostage to abysmal political leadership and hopeless journalists. My shopfront has opened on Facebook.
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I am publishing a book called Bread of Life: January.
Bread of Life is a daily bible quote with a layman's understanding of the meaning. I give one quote for each day, and also a series of personal stories illustrating key concepts eg Who is God? What is a miracle? Why is there tragedy?
January is the first of the anticipated year-long work of thirteen books. One for each month and the whole year. It costs to publish. It (Kindle version) should retail at about $2US online, but the paperback version would cost more, according to production cost.If you have a heart for giving, I fundraise at gofund.me/27tkwuc (Gofundme finished the fund raiser, 2017)
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Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August, September, October, or at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows a free kindle version.
The Amazon Author Page for David Ball
UK .. http://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B01683ZOWG
French .. http://www.amazon.fr/-/e/B01683ZOWG
Japan .. http://www.amazon.co.jp/-/e/B01683ZOWG
German .. http://www.amazon.de/-/e/B01683ZOWG
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I'm now on MAGAbook to sidestep FB censorship
https://www.magabook.com/register?invite=11673951025fadd3f055eca4.00045664
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I'm looking for former students to endorse me
https://www.superprof.com.au/write-recommendation-13371374-1cc2cf0f56166c9b04ad4097fc7d0b67.html
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